Renaissance Flashcards
Printing press
Invented 1451
Books could be printed now
Ideas could be shared
Impact of renaissance
People began to question things and find it out for themselves
Educated people disagreed with church
Leonardo da Vinci made accrue human anatomy drawings
Great plague
1665 tried to stop spread by burning clothes ,quarantines, smoking , labelling doors ,gave tobacco to kids
Rich fled to countryside
Woman searchers identified who had the plague
Watchmen at the doors to stop escapees
Red crosses
Versalius
Published the fabric of the human body 1543
Stole bodies from criminals and dissected them
Found Galen had made over 200 mistakes
Showed the importance of careful human dissection
Ambroise Pare
Published ten books non surgery
Created a mixture of egg yolks, Rose oil and turpentine to treat gunshots
Created false limbs
Used ligatures
William Harvey
Published book on motion of the heart and blood 1628
Proved the heart acted as a pump
Calculated that 3 times a mans body weight passes through an artery in an hour
Hospitals in 1400/1800
Early ren Henry VIII funded hospitals
17 hospitals were places to rest and pray
18 charitable hospitals funded by private people attempted to cure people